The use of a kinestatic charge detector for human bone mineral densitometry

Author

Zeman, H.D. ; DiBianca, F.A. ; Zeping, Z. ; Nagarajan, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Tennessee Univ., Memphis, TN, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

30 Oct-5 Nov 1994

Firstpage

1480

Abstract

A 2016 channel kinestatic charge detector has been built at the University of Tennessee (UT) which allows dual-energy bone mineral densitometry images to be acquired of a 40×40 cm field at 0.2 mm resolution in about 1 second. The high X-ray quantum efficiency of the detector combined with the low noise of the 2016 channel data acquisition system allows high accuracy and high resolution to be achieved at only modest dose. Bone density measurements have just commenced with the full field detector this month, and bone densitometry images of an inanimate calibration phantom and a frozen 4.7 kg turkey have been acquired so far

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; bone; densitometry; diagnostic radiography; drift chambers; 1 s; University of Tennessee; dual-energy bone mineral densitometry images; frozen turkey; full field detector; high X-ray quantum efficiency; human bone mineral densitometry; inanimate calibration phantom; kinestatic charge detector; low noise data acquisition system; medical instrumentation; Bones; Calibration; Data acquisition; Density measurement; Humans; Image resolution; Minerals; X-ray detection; X-ray detectors; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1994., 1994 IEEE Conference Record

Conference_Location

Norfolk, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2544-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1994.474577

Filename

474577